Is it a good idea to become manga artist?

Question

I am in year 9 and the school are fast tracking us so we choose our options quicker and now! I will be taking GCSE's a year early and will follow the path of being an English baccaloreate student due tot he new laws. I have chosen History, French, and Art and graphic design and then RE, PE, PCC, ICT, English, Science and Maths are compulsory. I have never known what job I want to take and even as a child I didn't dream of being a vet or whatever we said when we were kids. Since I was a kid I've been in love with anime and manga, and I can draw manga/anime but I'm always developing skills as an artist, however I read that it's a bad idea to as you have to do so many years of experience and I should have a back up plan, but because of my options things are limited so the outcome of the job I want is a gamble. This is the only job I've ever thought about getting, what should I do?

Answer 1

If you're not Japanese then however hard you'd heard it is, it'll be even harder. You'd need to speak fluent Japanese I'd imagine in the least.



For inspiration and ideas on how to get there, look at JoeyBlondeWolf2 [youtube/fb or wherever] she's Mexican and has always aspired to be a mangaka. She started working for Disney or something but packed it in and is now starting her own manga or something.



Anyway. To be a mangaka you'd have to be SOOO dedicated. I can't remember where I read it but basically if you want to go somewhere with you art you have to be competitive and work everyday. Also have a brilliant plotline and ability to draw the human figure [or whatever you have in mind] in all kinds of positions etc with NO source images. Etc.



I don't mean to put you off, really. But it is a hard dream to.. Uh.. capture.



But yeah. If you're serious go for it.



Again, I don't know much. Catch up with Joey's youtube channel I guess.

She's awesome.



http://www.youtube.com/user/Joeyblondewolf2?blend=2&ob=0#p/u/10/2W_6fVu004s



That's her video on how she's starting on becoming a manga artist and such.. Yeah.

Answer 2

at the starting up, it really is generic interior the Asian society to maintain your jobs interior your individual society. maximum businesses should not be keen to employ someone from yet another usa. era. it is going to likely be a waste of a few time even searching. the basically proper way which could be reported will be to enter a contest, and for that you would opt to do huge study on the internet to discover one. in spite of the indisputable fact that, even then your manga would may be the finest of the basically proper and having one prevailing manga, does no longer recommend that they might proceed printing different manga that you've created. also, in case you've not finished any artwork with digital drawing then you truly would truthfully favor some practice earlier every person would even evaluate searching at your drawings. those courses are often expensive and frustrating to contain the help of. back, this can take huge study on the internet to discover one you should apply. in my opinion, i believe that growing to be an American magna artist is like growing to be an astronaut. there are in reality a handful accessible and it really is a one shot deal. i'd recommend searching for yet another career course, mutually with a cartoonist or video clothier (or any career alongside those traces). progression up your journey and then always enter competitions and deliver your manga (no longer drawn, it could be printed) to manga companies that were conventional to settle for some American manga. those would contain ones mutually with Kodansha, Tokyopop, Seven Seas leisure, and so on. (back you would opt to study those businesses to get an cope with, understand in the journey that they settle for American manga, and they pay to have them shipped for the time of seas). regrettably, its very uncommon that you or any American turns right into a manga artist. in spite of the indisputable fact that, with further and extra individuals reading manga, the destiny would open up new opportunites that the present does no longer at the moment carry. keep attempting, and good luck!

Answer 3

of course it is ok and if you don't become a mangaka you can always do commission's a person would pay 5-20 dollars just for a good drawing , online or in real life (when anime conventions go to your town open a stand and whatnot)

Answer 4

If you want to do what you love I don't see any problem with it ^-^ manga is great!

but yes I would have a back up plan for money wise in the job situation even if its just a

job in a store or something. but yeah if its your passion go for it (^w^)/